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Cham (novel)
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Cham is the second novel by John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
winning British writer Jonathan Trigell.
It is set in the French mountain town and extreme sports Mecca of Chamonix Mont Blanc, where the author also resides.
The novel contrasts the modern, hedonistic and adrenaline-fuelled, life styles of the town's younger inhabitants against those of the Romantic Period poets Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley
and John Polidori
who also spent much time in the Chamonix Valley and lived lives considered debauched at the time. It also justaposes the sublime splendour of the high mountains and the almost spiritual quality of skiing
and snowboarding
against the modern town's darker underbelly and a night time world of alcohol abuse, drugs and casual sex.
The publisher has given the book the strapline: 'The Beach on ice: deep powder, dead poets and moral free-fall in the death-sport capital of the world.'
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize is a literary prize awarded annually for the best work of literature by an author from the Commonwealth aged 35 or under, written in English and published in the United Kingdom...
winning British writer Jonathan Trigell.
It is set in the French mountain town and extreme sports Mecca of Chamonix Mont Blanc, where the author also resides.
The novel contrasts the modern, hedonistic and adrenaline-fuelled, life styles of the town's younger inhabitants against those of the Romantic Period poets Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron...
and John Polidori
John Polidori
John William Polidori was an English writer and physician of Italian descent. He is known for his associations with the Romantic movement and credited by some as the creator of the vampire genre of fantasy fiction. His most successful work was the 1819 short story, The Vampyre, the first vampire...
who also spent much time in the Chamonix Valley and lived lives considered debauched at the time. It also justaposes the sublime splendour of the high mountains and the almost spiritual quality of skiing
Skiing
Skiing is a recreational activity using skis as equipment for traveling over snow. Skis are used in conjunction with boots that connect to the ski with use of a binding....
and snowboarding
Snowboarding
Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set onto mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing and skiing. It was developed in the U.S.A...
against the modern town's darker underbelly and a night time world of alcohol abuse, drugs and casual sex.
The publisher has given the book the strapline: 'The Beach on ice: deep powder, dead poets and moral free-fall in the death-sport capital of the world.'